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Tourist inflow restricted on Venice turnstiles

Thursday, May 17, 2018

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VeniceVenice and its 80,000 regular inhabitants have been groaning under the yoke of overtourism since long.
As many as 30 million travellers rush to its famous canals every year, stressing the infrastructure. In order to safeguard this tourist destination from the impact of excessive tourism, Luigi Brugnaro, the city’s businessman-turned-mayor has a controversial plan to stem the ride, turnstiles.
The authorities of the city are established turnstiles on all four bridges connecting the city to the mainland.
This has, in turn restricted the access of those bridges to tourists. All four access points would be managed by traffic police that can deviate traffic if the flow of tourists gets bit too busy.
Brugnano then went on to add that this marks the very first attempt to regulate influx of tourists in the history of Venice.
And a few locals also support the effort mentioned that several tourists coming here are day trippers and that they do not spend money but fill the city with rubbish.
Civil society organizations in Venice oppose the turnstiles as well.
The outgoing government gave Venice 10 million euros to regulate the influx of tourists, but this is unnecessary, feels Marco Gasparinetti of the April 25th Committee, a group that organizes the festival celebrating St. Mark, the city’s patron saint.
Other members of the committee point out that the new turnstiles bear a suspiciously close resemblance to turnstiles produced by one of the mayor’s companies. While the allegations have yet to be confirmed, Brugnaro is pushing ahead nonetheless.
Local shopkeepers have protested against the turnstiles for drawing customers away from their streets.

 

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